|
56 PART
II - Creation as presented to Common Sense Preface This part
considers a number
of relevant subjects
which show that
evolution doesn't really explain
how life came
to be on
the earth and
that some of
the arguments for it are simply
nonsense. Consider for
instance chapter 15
which demonstrates that
random typing is silly and
must necessarily produce almost entirely nonsense ! One would
say here that
when I was
young I had
the idea that
if one studied
a subject and produced
a lot of
evidence proving that
one's thinking on
a subject was
correct it would get
accepted. However, one
has found that
this is rarely the
case as all
of us tend to
be influenced more by
our prejudices than
evidence. Further, many are
influenced by clever speakers or
writers or by persons with a
lot of letters after their
names. In days
gone by one had
always assumed that
the fossils found
in the rocks
were of those creatures
that were destroyed
in the flood
in the days
of Noah. However there are problems. For
instance, the majority
of fossils are
of sea creatures,
though we learn
from Scripture that it
was the land
dwelling creatures that
were wiped out
save those that
were in the ark
(Genesis 7:21-23). Further,
the layers in
the earth must
have been part
of God's creatorial work
for they form the
basis for the
varied flora that
we see on
the earth. If they were laid
down then how
did the fossils
get into them
? Then over the earth,
except for those parts
covered by water or
deserts we have
layers of earth in
varying depths. How did these get
there ? These
questions do not
appear to me
to be addressed
by either evolutionists or
creationists. Some layers in the earth
contain fossil ferns and trees. These,
if they had once
lived on the
earth, must have
had earth to
grow in. If a
layer of earth was subsequently covered
by another layer
of rock, would
not the layers
of earth so
covered show in the
rocks ? What
about all the
creatures that live
in the earth
such as worms, moles and
other small creatures
? Where do they appear in such
layers ? Again, where did all the
material for the different layers come from? As to
the great flood,
it does not
appear extraordinary that there
was enough water on,
in or above the planet to
cover the earth as there was
water enough to cover
it as stated in Genesis
1:2. The water
was not taken
away, but simply
divided as stated
in verse 6
and separated from the
land in verses
9 and 10.
One wonders whether
anyone has taken
the trouble to calculate
how much rain
would have had
to fall on
the earth to
cover it in
40 days. If I
have done my sums
correctly rain would have
to have fallen
at a rate
of between four and
five inches a
minute to cover
the earth including
mount Everest. According
to the Internet the
maximum recorded rate
of fall is
about one inch
a minute. However,
this rate would need
to be modified
if Everest and
other high mountains
were not as
high as they are
now before the
flood. Further, we
would have to
allow for water
welling up from beneath and
also the amount
of rainwater that
would sink into
the earth. That
the topography of the earth
would have been
affected by the flood
is likely. However,
we must take into
account that the
waters abated slowly
and that at
least one olive
tree must have been still in place so that
a leaf could be plucked off by a dove (Genesis 8:11). It must be |